World History Chapter 23

What metaphor by Churchill, represented the division between Communist world and the free world?

Glasnost means "Openness"

What is the name of the free world's military alliance in Europe headed by the United States?

What was the military alliance called that included Russia and its satellite states in Eastern Europe?

Led the opposition to the attempted coup in 1991 in the Soviet Union

Who commanded the UN forces in Korea?

The Viet Cong was:

Essay: Contrast the Cold War ideas of containment and coexistence

What became the most recognizable symbol of the Cold War?

What was the name of the failed invasion of Cuba by CIA trained Cuban exiles

The Marshall Plan was designed to thwart communism by building up the military strength of Europe

Who was the most visible spokesman for the civil rights movement in the 1960s?

Although the domino theory was popular at one time, it has never proved true

Glasnost means "Restructuring" and sought to create more democratic atmosphere

Who declared Vietnam independent of French rule

What does detente mean?

First non-Communist leader of Poland since 1945

MAP: You need to label at least 6 of the following countries

The limited wars of the Cold War were:

Charles de Gaulle helped bring about the Fifth Republic's constitution which provided for a

This was the parallel that marked the border between North and South Korea

What began in 1949 when the Soviets developed their first atomic bomb?

Essay: Why did Eastern Europe fragment after the end of Soviet control?

Who seized power in Cuba in 1959 and allied with the Soviet Union?

The purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to:

Hamas, a radical Islamic group, developed during the first intifada as a more radical Islamic counterpart to PLO

Forced the Soviets to remove their missiles from Cuba

The Cuban missile crisis precipitated a war between the United States and the Soviet Union

Chinese students protested at Tiananmen Square

He declined to run for reelection because of his unpopular policies in Vietnam

Essay: describe the state of the U.S. when Ronald Reagan became president.. What were his strategies? Results?

After an attack on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress authorized the president to fight a war in:

What US president gradually reduced American involvement in Vietnam through a program called Vietnamization?

The Tet Offensive was important because:

Who was the Communist leader of Vietnam?

Which of the following did not lead to the collapse of the Soviet Empire?

Mikhail Gorbachev stet in motion forces that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union

The "U-2 incident" refers

What was the domino theory?